this is happening tonight! if you are in the area, you should check it out. getting this book to print has been quite the journey. i’m proud of my involvement and hope that if you can’t get out to the event, you’ll give the book a look-see, help us spread the word and maybe buy …
Tag Archive: luis rivas
Dec 04
CFDL Micro Award Nominations
Citizens For Decent Literature is proud to announce its nominations for the Micro Award. The Micro Award is a literary prize presented annually for fiction not exceeding 1000 words. The winner and finalists will be announced on the Micro Award website (http://www.microaward.org/) on Mar. 17, 2013. The author of the winning story shall receive $500 …
Dec 01
What we need is less poetry
once upon a time well-paid office holders, omnipotent bankers, opulent financial elites and other criminal elements of the bourgeoisie feared the very soup they slurped from their glossy, porcelain bowls, inspecting each silver spoonful for whateverthefuck poison looks like once upon a time wall street bankers feared the horse-and-buggy parked in front of the building …
Sep 18
New Issue at Citizens For Decent Literature
Citizens For Decent Literature’s second issue is now live online. http://nowplaying.citizensfordecentliterature.com/ Julia Coleman, Frankie Metro, Bud Smith, Frank Walsh, Anneliese Mackintosh, Karley De la Filth, Josh Olsen, Matthew Pasquarello, Carl Miller Daniels, Jason Hardung, Luis Rivas, William Doreski, Brad Hamlin & Mort Todd, Gene Fehler, Dan Provost, J. Claudius Cloyd, Michael Grover, Mark Wisniewski, Corey …
Sep 15
The Trapdoor Spider in the Alley
by Luis Rivas I see them walking by but they don’t see me. In the alley where I sleep, the tall overgrown bamboo stretches out over the walls and cascades down to the ground. I sit completely still behind the thick branches and trash and watch all of them walk by me in the dimly-lit …
Sep 15
The Success of Trey
by Luis Rivas There is no truth. There is only perception. – Gustave Flaubert I wake up. Hangover’s not too bad. I lift off the cut-out carpet that I’m using as a blanket. I locate my briefcase (imitation leather but still looks damn expensive) which I stole from the Salvation Army Thrift Store. I get …
Aug 15
Rick and the Chick
by Luis Rivas Albert knocked and no one answered but he heard noise so he knocked again and then heard, “GET FUCKED — NO ONE’S HOME.” He turned the knob and slowly pushed the door open. Rick was sprawled out on the living room couch, drunk as shit, playing with a very big pocket knife, …
Jan 19
You Can Call it What you Want
you can call it what you want: it can be a protest, sure; it can be an uprising, yes; it can even be a revolution, perhaps; a sustained political action; a mass consciousness awakening; a transformative–and inevitable– progression that rises and falls like the crashing waves of history. but, we grow weary of being invisible, …